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Develop an Alternate Reality Game or Make Machinima
The VWBPE MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) has spawned some OOCs. The first one is an Open Online Course on developing Alternative Reality Games (ARGs) and the second is on creating Machinima....
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ISTE SIGVE EDuMachinima Fest …and the Winners are
Avatars pull their Pixel cars into the SIGVE Drive In Movie to watch machinima submitted by students and teachers in the 2012 EDuMachinima Fest. On June 26th the SIGVE EDuMachinima Fest was held in the...
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Effective Online Teaching Requires Skill – Take the Gloves off
It’s Time to Take the Gloves off. Ironically, while Common Core is causing a shift in pedagogy in traditional face-to-face classrooms, online classrooms are proliferating with the previously used...
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A Connected Educators Hour Inworld
August 21, 2012 Connected Hour with SIGVE In celebration of Connected Educator’s Month, SIGVE is hosting a Connected hour with some of the most innovative educators around. On August 21 at 9PM EST a...
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A Virtual World Educator Badge
Badges are a hot topic in education these days. Edutopia has a list of badges you can self-select or apply for, Mozilla’s Open Badge Project provides an infrastructure (still in Beta), including...
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2013: Engage For Change
A small change – My new year WoW Toon, a little out of my comfort zone an Orc Warlock. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that...
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Machinima for Education
Scoping out the EduMachinima Theater on Front Range in Second Life. A group to support the development and use of machinima in education will begin meeting bi-weekly, starting on Monday September 16 at...
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Hour of Code in an MMORPG and an Immersive 3D Environment
I will be joining ISTE’s SIGVE and the IB Educators Guild in WoW in on an Hour of Code to celebrate Computer Science Week and to advocate for teaching coding at all grade levels. This will be at...
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My EduBlogger Picks for 2013
“Edublogger Awards” is an annual popular vote for online technologies. I find the Edublog site a valid and reliable source for good educational links in a variety of categories. I am honored to have...
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Is Machinima The New Diorama? or Flipping Academic Fairs
Jokaydia monitors children ages 4-16 in constructing spaces in Minecraft. Students use video capture and editing software to make machinima. This student built space is a historical complex. Ask a...
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